MINNEAPOLIS -- Five Grove City College
swimmers earned NCAA Division III All-America honors Wednesday night during the
opening night of competition at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships,
hosted by Macalester College at the University of Minnesota.

Courage earned his 12th career All-America
citation by earning second in the 50 freestyle. Courage posted a school-record
time of 19.97 seconds in the final. Kenyon's Zachary Turk won the 50 in 19.93
seconds.

Whitbeck touched third in the 50 with a
time of 20.03 seconds. In Wednesday's preliminaries, Whitbeck set a new school
record in the 50 with a time of 20.00 seconds.

Later Wednesday night, Whitbeck received
his 10th career All-America as he anchored Grove City's 12th-place 200 medley
relay team. The combination of Coppelli (backstroke), Beckner (breaststroke),
Larsen (butterfly) and Whitbeck (freestyle) recorded a time of 1:32.33. The
Wolverines posted a preliminary time of 1:33.01 in Wednesday's first session.

It is Larsen's second career All-America
honor. Beckner and Coppelli become the program's 52nd and 53rd all-time NCAA
All-Americans. Courage and Whitbeck are the most decorated swimmers in program
history.

Two other Grove City swimmers also competed
in the preliminaries Wednesday. Freshman Ben Bowser (Stow, Ohio/Stow-Munroe
Falls) captured 19th in the 200 individual medley with a time of 1:52.88.
Freshman Kirk Gagliardo (Wadsworth, Ill./Warren Township) placed 36th in the
preliminaries of the 50 free with a time of 21.03 seconds.

Grove City has accumulated 43 team points,
good for fourth place in the team standings. Kenyon leads the team standings
with 154 points while Emory is second at 101. St. Olaf is third with 78 points.